US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO on Sept. 8 for "Printhead, system and method for direct write vapor deposition" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,590, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago).

"Printhead, system and method for direct write vapor deposition" was invented by Supratik Guha (Chicago), Pavani Vamsi Krishna Nittala (Westmont, Ill.) and Xella A Doi (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printhead for direct write vapor deposition comprises a nozzle body including a reservoir for holding a material to be printed and a nozzle head protruding from the nozzle body. The nozzle head includes a nozzle opening for ejection of the material as a vapor-phase ink. The nozzle opening is in fluid communication with the reservoir. The nozzle head ma...